Word: nears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate's -chiefly because of the necessary brevity of the speeches-but actually meant no more. That the vote was in the bag was conclusively demonstrated when wily old Speaker William Brockman Bankhead, Hamlet of the House, took the floor for a passionate defense of the measure: near the finish-post, he always cheers the winner...
...must be nonpartisan and secondary. But, surveying the corporate structure of modern business, he worriedly notes "points of control which Labor cannot reach by collective bargaining alone," goes on to preach Government regulation (and even ownership of railroads), when & where private enterprise "cannot alone adjust itself to new conditions." Near the end of his timid tome, he tentatively concludes...
...Richard Frankensteen, et al. No strong man, 80-year-old Mr. Dickinson tried none of the around-the-clock, tire-'em-out tactics which ex-Governor Frank Murphy used to apply to stubborn negotiators. As though he were teaching his Bible class in the Center Eaton Methodist Church near Charlotte, Mich., Luren Dickinson piped: ". . . If you have faith, and apply the Golden Rule, you can get together." For two hours his pupils did unto each other as they had been done by for weeks, swapping acrimonies and getting nowhere. The Governor pared his nails, enjoined his guests to have...
...beautiful and royal bride-to-be -Helen, sister of George II, the present King of Greece. They were married in 1921, and seven months later Princess Helen gave birth to Mihai, who fortnight ago celebrated his 18th birthday, and who was last week given a new palace near his father...
...first of next week the annual Crimson telephone directory will be delivered to all University students living near the Square. Commuters will be able to get a copy of the book by calling at the Crimson Businese Office from 9 to 5 o'clock any day next week...